The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Confucius

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
Lou Holtz

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle

All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Aristotle

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
W. Clement Stone

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
W. Clement Stone

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
John Adams

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Jim Rohn